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In this podcast, Zoe Knight, Managing Director and Group Head, HSBC Centre of Sustainable Finance, will discuss the global sustainable finance agenda and the growing focus on transition finance in
In this podcast, Raf Hussain (Global Head of Strategic Planning and Stress Testing at HSBC) and Ben Carr (Analytics and Capital Modelling Director at Aviva) discuss an important area of
In the podcast Economics & Beyond, hosted by Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking Rob Johnson, Rob and Chen discuss the results of a new report on
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The Canadian government has proposed spending billions of dollars to fight climate change. Will it be enough?
In this podcast, Ian Parry, IMF’s principal environmental fiscal policy expert, argues no environmental policies are more effective than carbon taxes. Mr. Parry says carbon taxes promote a full range
More than 100 years ago, British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou explained how to tax things like pollution. His insight on how to deal with negative externalities of industry activities is
Dr. Andrew Steer, the President and CEO of the World Resources Institute, discusses in an IMF podcast fiscal policies as a way of implementing climate change strategies. He highlights the
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